Word: borno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together in agony. 'I'm very amusing', the shouted over and over, I'm essentially a comic character!' but his words were lost in the larger sound of the worlds were...
...right, sometimes far to the left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
With the cabled approval of President Hoover, 65-year-old Eugene Roy, broker, former President of the National Clearing House, was chosen to serve as temporary President of Haiti from the retirement of President Louis Borno (May 15) until a properly constituted presidential election is held "at the earliest possible date...
...Congress adjourned. Washington was enveloped in mourning. ¶. It took President Hoover's Haiti Commission less than a week of investigating at Port-au-Prince to forward its first and most important recommendation to the White House. The recommendation: Selection of a temporary neutral President to succeed Louis Borno, to be followed by a general election, the restoration of representative government, the withdrawal of the U.S. high commissioner and the marine occupation force. President Hoover approved this plan...
From 1915 to 1922, however, little was accomplished, for there was continual bickering and disagreement between the Haitian Government and the Americans. But in 1922 a new President, Borno, was elected. He proved very friendly to American plans. From then until the present time there has been more of less cooperation between the native Government and the American occupation...